I have a few occupations that I have done concurrently, one of which is being a book dealer, another of which is being a publisher. One of the most rewarding things about being a book dealer is that I find amazing books that very few people today seem to know about. When I find a great one, I then realize that the world would be a better place if more people knew about the work, so I see to it that I republish it in whatever way I can.

One of the biggest discoveries came to me when looking at another work by the author and illustrator of one of my favorite books called “The Bible Looking Glass,” by John W. Barber. This other work I found of his by research is called “The Handbook of Illustrated Proverbs.” Part of it is like “The Bible Looking Glass” — original metaphoric and allegorical visual emblems illustrating spiritual principles. He did this same thing with his book on wise sayings, but then had a very long list of proverbs by themselves. I realized that many of this wise sayings had not been heard much in the hundred and fifty years since publication.

There does not seem to me to be many things as scandalous as society not reprinting its wisdom from age to age. I realized that reprinting the whole volume might add a tone of antiquated oddness that not every one would appreciate, but most people enjoy reading wise sayings, so I decided to reprint just them.

I had to spend much time editing them because the text I found online for them was typo-laden. Google had scanned the images and then when it did its computerized rendition into text like all such examples it creates it does not spend any time correcting what seems to be about a 30% rate of error, either in added gibberish or just misspelled words.

So, this is a review but also states that there is a file now here that has just the proverbs. It may be found under the name HANDBOOK OF APPROVED PROVERBS for now, as that was the title page's beinning of the name, I mistakenly copied.